13 January 2011

Outsourcing is the practice of contracting with another company located overseas for the acquisition of workforce that is able to provide services that may otherwise be performed by the in-house employees of a particular business or company. Most multinational companies outsource because it’s more affordable – less overhead expenses are incurred and there aren’t that much employee benefits to take care of.

One of the most popular types of outsourcing is BPO or Business Process Outsourcing and one of its main components is online date entry. As the name implies, data entry is the process of entering information into a data file. Most everybody can do it and even stay-at-home moms can become data entry specialists because all that’s needed is a personal computer or laptop, internet connection and sometimes, specialized software.

Most businesses that operate globally have to deal with large amounts of valuable data that are important for them to maintain their competitiveness among the throngs of businesses in the global marketplace. So what they do is resort to outsourcing so that they can get data management taken care of and they can focus their attention on more complicated tasks at hand. Through the use of modern and state-of-the-art technologies, they are able to delegate the documentation, sorting and maintenance of their data to skilled specialists who are off-shore.

If you work from home, you’d be surprised to know that you can make a career out of online data entry. BPO companies often prefer hiring people who are home-based because of the reduced costs on their part. Besides that, they know that home workers are able to contribute to improved productivity since they get to concentrate better on their job and they work in a pressure-free environment.

Working as a data entry specialist is not really hard but specialists are required to be accurate, efficient, fast, and effective and they must know how to work their way around the Internet. They must also have an idea about the different types of data entry – data capture or captcha, data entry from handwritten materials, numeric and alphanumeric entry, typing and copying and pasting.

How much does one get paid for home-based online data entry? The rates vary. Home-based data entry specialists must be aware that they won’t get paid as much as those who are based in office. However, they would still get a lucrative compensation. If the data entry work consists mainly of copy/paste tasks, for example copying the information or link of the employer and pasting it on an online form or the likes, the worker may get paid for every click on the information they submitted that results to a conversion. Now if the data entry involves research or entering data in a format-specific file, the worker gets paid either by bulk or for every successful entry.

Here’s a word of caution though: not all outsourcing groups turn out to be the real deal. If the company asks any payment of sorts from you as part of your application process, take that as a cue that you’re dealing with scammers. Contact the company if you want some clarifications and if they are more than willing to explain things to you, you might be well on your way to becoming a data entry specialist.

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